By BardofWilmette - Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Today's (July 22) Chicago Tribune
has an op-ed column by Seven Calabresi, who is a professor at
Northwestern University's Law School, a founding member of the
Federalist Society, and a veteran of the Reagan and Bush Sr.
administrations. He asserts that Barack Obama is too young to be
president. I thought his column was so asinine th more...
By BardofWilmette - Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 AM
I just finished Scott McClellan's book What Happened.
It is surprisingly good, or at least it was surprising to me. This was
not, as some had suggested the week the book was released, a book to
whitewash his own record, or to settle scores. It is the thoughtful
reflections of a White House insider, who likes and respect more...
By BardofWilmette - Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 2:49 AM
As I have noted in a couple of previous blog postings, one of my favorite newspaper columnists is Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune.
Chapman is what I would call a libertarian conservative, who almost
certainly favors Republicans for high public office more often than
Democrats. While he favors many of the conservative goals more...
By BardofWilmette - Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 7:21 PM
I
was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning. Joe Scarborough
discussed the latest New York Times/CBS News opinion poll, which asked
their polling sample a lot of questions, mainly about racial
attitudes. In particular, one question asked: "Is your opinion of
John McCain favorable, not favorable, undecided, or haven't y more...
By BardofWilmette - Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 2:25 PM
I suppose it is old
news already, but I still want to comment on Barack Obama's comments
following two recent and controversial Supreme Court decisions. The
Court ruled the District of Columbia law banning handguns to be
unconstitutional, as a violation of the Second Amendment right to bear
arms. The Court also ruled that a L more...
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